Question for upcoming cycle

[medschoolplease123]

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[WedgeDawg]

Moving to preallo

 

[yeezuswest]

Yeah you can definitely put that on an app. Seeing as it's not an actual experience of yours, it probably won't help boost your application if that's what you're asking.

 

[medschoolplease123]

would it not help boost my application even if I plan on doing the work in the upcoming year? or what if I have done a couple months of work prior to submitting the app say from like march to june... so for the activities they all have to be done prior to submitting the app there are no "doing in your gap year" kind of stuff acceptable?

 

[Smoove]

would it not help boost my application even if I plan on doing the work in the upcoming year? or what if I have done a couple months of work prior to submitting the app say from like march to june... so for the activities they all have to be done prior to submitting the app there are no "doing in your gap year" kind of stuff acceptable?

If you have not started then I don't think you can make it one of your experiences. For example, I mentioned a research project I had started working on the month I submitted the application, but I did not mention my full time job I was going to be working during my gap year since I had not started. It came up during interviews and that's about the only place it was brought up.

 

[EaglesontheWarpath]

You can write about the work you have done/hours you have put in up until the point at which you submit the app, but anything done after you can't put in. In some of the secondaries you might be able to use a "Is there anything else you would like to tell us" to update the schools, but once you hit submit everything you do from that point on adcoms don't see. This is why update letters come in handy, when in December or January you want to let schools know that you've been working on X new thing or got Y published since you submitted the app six months ago.

 

[medschoolplease123]

You can write about the work you have done/hours you have put in up until the point at which you submit the app, but anything done after you can't put in. In some of the secondaries you might be able to use a "Is there anything else you would like to tell us" to update the schools, but once you hit submit everything you do from that point on adcoms don't see. This is why update letters come in handy, when in December or January you want to let schools know that you've been working on X new thing or got Y published since you submitted the app six months ago.

Would you be able to go into a bit more detail for the update letters. Do all schools send those? And do they send them in addition to the secondaries or are they part of the secondaries? Thanks!

 

[EaglesontheWarpath]

You send the update letters, usually before an interview invite or before a decision has been made post-interview to try and improve chances of getting an interview/getting an acceptance/getting off a waitlist. Not necessary by any means, but if you have something new to tell admissions committees about yourself that you think would help and isn't in your application (because it was accomplished after you submitted the app) then you would send a letter updating them as to what is new.

 

[medschoolplease123]

Do you do this through the AAMC or do you have to personally send it to each school? Also do they request that you send one or is it up to you. Like i mean say i want to send one to a school but they didn't request one, do i still send one or do i wait for them to send an email asking me to send an update letter?

 

[CHoge25]

Do you do this through the AAMC or do you have to personally send it to each school? Also do they request that you send one or is it up to you. Like i mean say i want to send one to a school but they didn't request one, do i still send one or do i wait for them to send an email asking me to send an update letter?

You personally do it and it is your call if you want to/think it is something appropriate to inform them about

 

[medschoolplease123]

I do it whenever?

 

[EaglesontheWarpath]

I do it whenever?

If you want to send an update you just send it to the schools you want to. There's no official capacity for update letter. I would guess most people don't send them, but if you have something new you want to tell schools about yourself then you just send admissions the letter when your further in the application cycle. This will make more sense if you follow along with SDN from start to finish of the app cycle, because you won't be the only person asking about update letters. PM me if you have even more questions...

 

[ifnotnowwren]

Not sure why people are saying you can't put future hours in...if you start the position before you submit your app, you absolutely can put those hours in. I started a job in May and put that job in. If you are starting a job after you submit your app, you can send updates to the schools.

For AAMC, you will have to put the experience title, a description, a label for the type of experience, contact info for someone who can confirm the job, the time span worked and the total amount of hours worked during that time.

So yours would look like this:

Experience Type: Paid employment - Medical/clinical
Experience Name: Name of hospital/research job
Start date: March 2016
End date: March 2017
Total hours: (this includes the hours you haven't worked yet. So if you are going to be working there for a year, for 20 hours a week, you would put 1040 hours. Some people split it up, so it would be March 2016 - date application is submitted and then from the date application is submitted-March 2017. I just chose to lump my hours together from when I started to August of the year I would start medical school)

And then organization info, contact info, and experience description.

 

[candbgirl]

Would you be able to go into a bit more detail for the update letters. Do all schools send those? And do they send them in addition to the secondaries or are they part of the secondaries? Thanks!

Have you spent anytime researching the process of applying? You really should so you can do the best job possible on your application and throughout the Gap year. Not all schools accept updates and others only accept them at certain times. You have to research all of this yourself.


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[virchow?]

Some secondaries will have sections that specifically ask what you are doing if you are taking (a) gap year/years, so that is a good opportunity.
I agree with the above posters who recommended talking about this during the "anything else you want us to know?" type questions.

 

[CCMDOC9254]

Not sure why people are saying you can't put future hours in...if you start the position before you submit your app, you absolutely can put those hours in. I started a job in May and put that job in. If you are starting a job after you submit your app, you can send updates to the schools.

For AAMC, you will have to put the experience title, a description, a label for the type of experience, contact info for someone who can confirm the job, the time span worked and the total amount of hours worked during that time.

So yours would look like this:

Experience Type: Paid employment - Medical/clinical
Experience Name: Name of hospital/research job
Start date: March 2016
End date: March 2017
Total hours: (this includes the hours you haven't worked yet. So if you are going to be working there for a year, for 20 hours a week, you would put 1040 hours. Some people split it up, so it would be March 2016 - date application is submitted and then from the date application is submitted-March 2017. I just chose to lump my hours together from when I started to August of the year I would start medical school)

And then organization info, contact info, and experience description.

This. You put the start date, expected end date, and total number of expected hours (future hours included.)


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